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“It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”

D. W. Winnicott, Paediatrician and Psychoanalyst

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Welcome to the HeartSmart website!

HeartSmart is all about using play and our innate creativity to help children of all ages to develop and work through difficulties.  At the core of HeartSmart is the aim to work holistically with parents, teachers and childcare practitioners whilst holding the child and play at the very heart of all that we do.

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